mottetert
3mo ago
But it isn't actually "free" because the fees charged to merchants are passed on to the consumers. If everyone uses credit cards, everything costs more. (2% perhaps? Too lazy to look it up.) It's just hidden from you. The credit card companies aren't charities.
I could go on about how the agreements that merchants have to charge the same price to cash and credit customers are an abusive monopolistic practice, but not now.
mottetert
4mo ago
By "know", do you mean you know personally about the UFO story, or just that it's a theory you feel certain is true?
mottetert
4mo ago
Mine is that modern sexual-harassment activism is secretly funded by dating sites such as Tinder. Think about it: if you can't pursue women in the workplace, the gym, the street, or anywhere else, what's left? Online dating.
mottetert
4mo ago
Why is Turkey so high? I would think as Muslims they would be conservative and have fewer partners.
mottetert
5mo ago
Isn't spelling kind of important for a doctor? He could kill people with misspelled prescriptions.
mottetert
7mo ago
Probably this. There were crowds of protestors celebrating his death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_and_Michael_Reinoehl
mottetert
7mo ago
I've never heard anyone suggest that it was a moral failing. That sounds like a completely made up strawman to victim oneself against.
Where are you getting this moral failing narrative from?
Literally every feminist on Reddit. It's ubiquitous. Guy asks for advice or sympathy about his dating/sex troubles, immediately gets pounced on by everyone saying "actually it's your lack of confidence and your bad attitude that you're entitled to sex." Every time.
And they claim that things like looks have no effect on dating. "I know one guy who's short and bald and gets lots of dates, therefore your lack of dates mean you must be an evil misogynist". Or they'll tell guys to "take a shower" as if every unsuccessful guy is an insane hobo who never bathes.
mottetert
7mo ago
Ironically, the people who say guys who can't get laid must be evil, are typically the same ones who spout Nice Guy rhetoric that "being nice doesn't entitle you to sex", and they somehow don't see the contradiction.
mottetert
8mo ago
From Fravor's testimony:
Fravor has admitted to playing pranks with his F-18 to try to make people think they were seeing a UFO. It is beyond me why people would take any of his UFO reports seriously. It's negligent that most news reports don't mention this about him.
I think 18 has become the dominant cultural age of consent in America, even if there are lower legal ages in some places. I think it's partly Hollywood as you say, and partly from the ubiquitousness of porn where 18 is the hard limit.
On Reddit it's so ingrained that in discussions people simply refuse to believe it's ever under 18. They say that those laws only apply to 16-17's sleeping with each other, not adults, and that gets upvoted, while any correct comments get downvoted to oblivion.
mottetert
10mo ago
There are reports that Reddit is un-deleting comments that people have deleted. You might want to check if that actually worked or not.
mottetert
10mo ago
I think it was just the convenience of being able to browse many forums on one site and join them with one click, instead of the tedious process of registering a name and password, and responding to a confirmation email, separately for every forum. At least that's what it was for me.
One of the pilots who has claimed to see UFOs is David "Sex" Fravor. (Who, incidentally, was already a bit famous from being in a documentary aboard an aircraft carrier in the 2000's.)
On the Joe Rogan podcast not too long ago, he admitted to pranking people into thinking they had seen UFOs. He said he would spot campers by their campfires, put his fighter jet's engines to idle and glide in quietly and invisibly until he was over top of them. Then he would pull up sharply, kick in the afterburners and climb vertically away from them. So, the campers would see lights appear in the sky out of nowhere and then shoot straight up and disappear. I don't recall if he was able to verify that it worked and people actually reported UFOs or not.
So, he had admitted to deliberately trying to trick people into thinking they had seen aliens, as a joke, but for some reason people still believe him when he tells other UFO stories.
mottetert
1yr ago
Would you put on a mask you aren't allowed to take off, a mask that comes with a bunch of hormones you have to pump into your body? Would you do that for an annual raise of $100K? $200K? I sincerely doubt cynical men who are willing to disfigure their bodies and live a life of deception
You don't have to go on hormones or have surgery if you're operating under self-identification policies.
mottetert
1yr ago
More like Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.
mottetert
1yr ago
In public schools, trans minors participate on the sports team of their adoptive sex in non-contact, non-fighting sports. In fighting sports and contact sports, they participate with their natal sex.
That would results in transgenders dominating every non-contact sport. Biological girls would have no chance at ever winning a sprinting or swimming championship. A lot of girls aren't going to be interested in sports if they have no hope of ever winning.
mottetert
1yr ago
Ominous. "Late version" sounds like it intends for there not to be any more versions of us.
mottetert
1yr ago
Yes, they are delisting giant parts of the Internet. I have done searches on old usernames that I used on webforums in the 00's and I only get a few dozen results even though I made thousands of posts with those handles, and some forums I posted on aren't listed at all. I've gone back to some forums to check directly that my posts are still there, and they are.
Ironically, this is good for my own privacy, but it proves that Google search has gone completely to shit and is simply refusing to index much of the web. I've written at length about my problems with Google search elsewhere but I'm too busy to hunt those writings down now.
I also have major problems with how Youtube ruined their search algorithm in order to "promote authoritative sources" about Covid. You can no longer find raw video of anything, such as protests police shootings or other public events. You can only find edited, slanted news reports about them from government and corporate channels. And of course when you search for non-political topics all you get are shitty 11-minute videos by full-time monetized professional Youtubers instead of from regular people. They've defeated the whole purpose of Youtube and largely turned it into another form of TV.
mottetert
1yr ago
MIDI and 8-bit chiptune, though, I can see where there are hard limits (though I think MIDIs could be elevated by the ability to use more instruments/channels).
Apparently you've never encountered the genre of Black MIDI.
Convenience. You can use hundred of forums on one site without having to go through the tedious process of signing up, remembering login info, and clicking on verification emails for each separate forum. And you get a consolidated feed of all the forums, and notifications of replies to your posts.
It worked great in the earlier days before the moderators went absolutely mad.
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